Sebastiaan Stöteler
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18 November 1983
Sebastiaan Stöteler | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| Assumed office 12 November 2025 | |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 16 July 2024 – 11 November 2025 | |
| Succeeded by | Mieke Andriese |
| Parliamentary group | Patriots for Europe |
| Constituency | Netherlands |
| Member of the Provincial Council of Overijssel | |
| In office 16 March 2022 – 15 July 2024 | |
| Member of the Almelo Municipal Council | |
| In office 21 March 2018 – 15 July 2024 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | T.S.M. Stöteler 18 November 1983 Almelo, Netherlands |
| Party | PVV (since 2016) |
| Alma mater | HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht |
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T.S.M. "Sebastiaan" Stöteler (Dutch: [səˈbɑstijaːn ˈstøːtələr]; born 18 November 1983) is a Dutch politician of the right-wing populist Party for Freedom (PVV).
Born and raised in Almelo, he worked as a judicial officer and served on its municipal council starting in 2018. He became a member of the Provincial Council of Overijssel in 2022. Stöteler was elected to the European Parliament in June 2024 as the PVV's lead candidate.
Early life
Stöteler was born in Almelo, Overijssel[1] in 1983 and he grew up there. He had several jobs after graduating high school with a havo diploma before studying law at the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. From 2002 to 2008 he was a bailiff and later a judicial officer for a debt collection agency starting in the mid-2010s.[2]
Political career
Stöteler first became involved with the PVV in 2016 and volunteered as a policy officer for the PVV's faction in the Provincial Council of Overijssel. Stöteler entered the Almelo Municipal Council in 2018, where he has served on its presidium and as the PVV's parliamentary leader.[2][3] Comparing him to other municipal councilors of the PVV, de Volkskrant described Stöteler as a moderate who occasionally cooperated with the governing coalition.[2] He was the party's 25th candidate in the March 2021 general election, when the PVV won 17 seats.[2][4] Stöteler became a member of the Provincial Council of Overijssel the following year next to this job and his position on the municipal council.[2]
He was selected as the PVV's lead candidate in the June 2024 European Parliament election.[5] Newspaper NRC called Stöteler invisible during the campaign, as he shied away from public appearances apart from attending two debates.[3] He announced that the PVV intended to leave the Identity and Democracy Party in favor of a new party to be established by French politician Marine Le Pen.[5] The PVV became the second-largest party in the Netherlands, winning six seats, and Stöteler was elected. Its MEPs joined the new Patriots for Europe political group that included Le Pen's National Rally and the Hungarian Fidesz party.[6] Stöteler became vice-chair of the group, and he has served on the following committees:
- Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
- Committee on Foreign Affairs
- Subcommittee on Security and Defence
- Delegation for relations with Israel
- Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and ASEAN (substitute)[7]
